On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Gerald Masar wrote: > Seriously, in later models VW changed the fill recommendation to > something just below the filler hole to make it easier to shift, but you > practically needed their special tool to figure out where. Or a carefully calibrated knuckle. ;) I put in the amount they said to put in, and I could find the fluid suface with my fingertip a short distance below the hole, so I called it good. If they can arbitrarily change the fluid level just to make shifting easier, the exact level can't be all that critical.
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